Movers & Shakers: January 27, 2015


Botswana: DCI +0.01%, USD 1.04m

FNBB accounted 99.93% of total market turnover. The stock traded a total of 2,744,410 shares to close at 365t.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.07%, USD 5.9m

Activity increased in Nairboi as locals continue to dominate proceedings with turnover increasing to $5.9m. A large local cross in Centum drove proceedings as a total of 1.81m shares traded in the name. Foreigners drove activity in EABL as the brewer gained +0.6% on 339k shares. EQBNK closed the day unchanged while KNCB fell -1.7%. Foreign investor demand drove Safcom +0.7% higher on 5.26m shares.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.22%, USD 1.23m

Indices closed the session in the red as BBC, LUX and PBL accounted for 52.7% of total turnover. BBC, the biggest loser of the day, lost 28cts to close at RS6.00 on the back of 1.2m shares traded. MCBG and SBM slid by 0.5% and 1% to close the day off at Rs197.00 and Rs1.00 respectively. Rogers continued its climb, to close at a new all-time high of Rs31.05.

Nigeria: ASI +0.27%, USD 24.5m

A better day in Lagos as turnover increased to $24.5m thanks to some crosses in Unilever ($3.27m), Access ($2.92m), Nestle ($2.38m), Presco ($2.05m) and NB ($2.03m). Banks closed in positive territory with the sector gaining +0.32% thanks to ETI (+2.42%) and Access (+2.29%). Consumers (+0.27%) also closed higher thanks to PZ Cussons (+5.00%), Dangote Sugar (+4.99%) and Flour Mills (+2.79%). Unfortunately it was a rather dull day from a news point of view.

Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.44%, USD 345k

Another slow day in Harare, as only paltry volumes were seen across the board. Econet closed weak at 53c on a volume of 55,639 shares traded, the counter continues to be well offered at 55c. Delta, Ok Zim and Seedco remained unchanged, closing in at 111c, 14c and 102c respectively.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.58

-0.04

Nigeria

NGN

191.35

-4.13

Kenya

KES

91.70

-1.20

Mauritius

MUR

32.85

-3.35

Botswana

BWP

9.666

-1.19

Tanzania

TZS

1818.50

-4.70

Uganda

UGX

2850.00

-2.77

Rwanda

RWF

697.61

-1.12

Ghana

GHS

3.32

-3.23

BRVM

XOF

579.66

-6.46

Egypt

EGP

7.43

-3.84

Morocco

MAD

9.52

-4.71

Tunisia

TND

1.93

-3.40

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